- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Funeral Services for Mr. Floyd Mullins, Sunday, March 27, 1983, 2:00 O'Clock P.M., Little Salem Christian Church, Reidsville, North Carolina, Revered Junior W. Wimbush, Pastor
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1983-03-27
- Subject:
- African American men--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--North Carolina--Reidsville---History--20th century
Funeral service--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
Mourning customs--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
African Americans--North Carolina--Reidsville--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Rockingham County, Reidsville, 36.35486, -79.66447
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Floyd Mullins. Birth date: August 12, 1991. Death date: July 30, 1992. Funeral date: August 4, 1992. Church: Stewart & Calhoun Funeral Chapel (Akron, Ohio). The Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History as part of Georgia HomePLACE. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
- Local Identifier:
- Folder number: 239
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_mullinsfloyd19830327
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_mullinsfloyd19830327
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
FLOWER BEARERS
Christian Women's Fellowship Little Salem Christian Church
CASKET BEARERS
Deacons Greater Inspirational Grooms Baptist Church
and Little Salem Christian Church
Sunday, March 27, 1983 2:00 O'Clock P.M.
LITTLE SALEM CHRISTIAN CHURCH Reidsville, North Carolina
Reverend Junior W. Wimbush, Pastor
OBITUARY
Floyd Mullins, a son of the late Jim and Annie Scales Mullins, was born on February 15, 1896. He was a life long native of Rockingham County, North Carolina.
He was a devout and loyal member of Little Salem Christian Church, serving faithfully until his health began to decline. He chose to till the land thus, farming became his life's vocation.
He was well-known and well-liked in his community. His pleasant personality endeared him to all who became acquainted with him.
His fruitful life came to a close, Thursday, March 24, 1983 at Annie Penn Memorial Hospital, Reidsville, North Carolina.
Although we are saddened, we bow to God's will and shall keep faith in His love and mercy.
Sharing the sorrow of his death are: wife, Mrs. Gertrude Watt Mullins; daughters, Mrs. Lena Mae Blair, New York City, Mrs. Pauline Singleton, Mrs. Willie Mae McCain, and Miss Valerie Mullins, all of Reidsville, North Carolina; sons, Floyd E. Mullins, Hampton, Virginia, John W. Mullins, and David L. Mullins, both of Reidsville, North Carolina; step-daughter, Miss Mary Katherine Wilkerson, Newark, New Jersey; step-sons, William A. Wilkerson, Newark, New Jersey and Thomas Wilkerson, Reidsville, North Carolina; sisters, Mrs. Maude Simpson, Mrs. Lizzie Thomas, Mrs. Addie Rae King, all of Reidsville, North Carolina, Mrs. Frances Courts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Bessie Stokes, Washington, D. C.; brothers, James Mullins and Walter King, both of Reidsville, North Carolina; fourteen grandchildren; eleven step-grandchildren; twenty two great grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends.
All who believe in God's mercy and grace
Will meet their loved ones face to face
Where time is endless and joy unbroken
And only the words of God's love are spoken.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
For the love, respect, and sympathy shown by each of you, we thank you most graciously.
-The Family
ORDER OF SERVICE
PROCESSIONAL HYMN....................................... Mixed Choir SCRIPTURE PRAYER HYMN....................................... Mixed Choir CHURCH RESOLUTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .........................Wilbert King REMARKS ......................... Rev. Elijah Galloway, Jr. OBITUARY ................................. Read Silently SOLO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Annie Mae Pinnix EULOGY .......................... Rev. Junior W. Wimbush RECESSIONAL
SERVICE OF COMMITTAL and
INTERMENT Greenview Cemetery Reidsville, North Carolina